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Learning how to use a framework correctly is a challenging task. Eclipse Code Recommenders support novice developers on this task by leveraging the knowledge how others used the framework before.

How much can an IDE predict what you will write in the next seconds?

At first glance, you might answer: nothing. Indeed, the information needed to complete the source code is primarily in the developer's brain. However, when using a framework one has to follow several contracts defined by the framework. For instance when subclassing a framework class several methods have to be overridden by the developer and certain methods have to be called within these methods etc.

Eclipse Code Recommenders aims to learn how developers typically use or extend a given framework by analyzing applications that sucessfully applied the framework before. The knowledge extracted from these examples is then presented to other users by code recommendations variing from single method calls to complete code templates or (with version 0.3) by recommeding interesting example code snippets which might be helpful for the task at hand.

Check http://eclipse.org/recommenders/documentation/completion for a feature overview.